Disclaimer:
Ayanami_Chan doesn't own you!! Don't shoot, please!! Heero, put down the gun.
Heero: Why should I?
Ayanami: If you let me live, I'll use my power as authoress to help you.
Heero: You already ruined Relena's new life, and practically killed my sister. And a whole bunch of other things too, but I can't say because the readers don't know yet.
Ayanami: I can make Relena love you.
Heero: She already loves me.
Ayanami: No, no, *whispers in his ear* That kind of love you.
Heero: Oh. *holsters gun* You got a deal.
Ayanami: *sighs* Relena, you're gonna kill me. Aw, well. On with the fic!
AN: I know it's confusing when I jump form time to time, but I'm telling two sides to the story. The only problem is that they occur at different times. This is just to help you confused souls out there. Relena ran away, and about a month later her apartment burned down. About the time it burned down was when Kitty was escaping from her captors. Now everything's going to happen at the same time, except for flashbacks, which I don't have any planned. As this chapter starts, Kitty is just getting out of the hospital. It's been two weeks. Hope that helped!
Note: I'm making Mariemaia a few years older. Just be warned.
Falling Angels: Chapter 3
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Two weeks later...
Kitty demanded to have a wheelchair she could propel herself. She would have asked to have no chair at all, but her leg hurt so bad, she agreed to it. So she and Mariemaia were in the parking lot, Marie showing her how to pull stunts on the wheelchair.
Kitty's jaw was on the ground as Mariemaia pulled out of a spin. "How do you do that?" she asked astonished.
"How do I do that? Easy. I lived in one of these for two years. The hard part is surviving the yelling-at I get if mama catches me." Marie laughed, and sped off towards her adoptive mother's van. Kitty laughed too, and followed.
Heero was still inside, filling out the paperwork, muttering to himself.
"Name: Kaily Yuy, Birthday: 12/22/183, Parents: unknown and unknown..." Zechs listened with intrest.
Heero saw the last line on the form and laughed to himself. By signing here, you agree that all the above information is true to the best of your knowledge. He grinned, and handed the from to the nurse at the front desk.
"Sir, you have to sign at the bottom."
"I can't. If I do it means all the info is correct. Even the name is fake, but the birthday is right." he tossed over his shoulder as he turned to leave.
Zechs and Une stared for a minute before following him out.
Relena lied in the filth in an old alleyway, crying. She was hungry, thirsty, and tired. She has no money, nothing. She went into a soup kitchen a few days ago. She couldn't stay long, because she remembered what it was like to serve at one, rather then be served. The shame, she couldn't bear it. She had to leave.
After a while, she pulled herself from the ground and began to dig through the trash that surrounded her. There must be something of value here. she thought to herself.
She dug through the trash for hours, coming upon nothing but old phone bills, rotting food, broken toys, and general trash.
A flash caught her eye, from something near the base of a pile she hadn't been to yet. She slowly moved over to it, then began to free it from it's hiding place. It was a metal box that had obviously been there for a while, but it hadn't rusted or anything. It was a strong, expensive box to simply throw out. There was no damage to it, as far as she could tell, and the lock still worked.
Well, I have a lot of time on my hands, lets try picking it. I'd best learn how anyway. she thought, and pulled an old safety pin from one of the piles. Then she set to work.
Half an hour later, she heard a faint 'click', and smiled. She gave a small yank, and it opened. "So that's how you do it." she said aloud, pleased with her achievement. She removed the lock from the box, and closed it again. Within five minutes it was open once more. "This will be useful." she said, referring both to the skill and the lock.
Then she set the lock aside and looked at the box. I shouldn't open it, it belongs to someone. But they left it here, and I found it. Maybe I can find who it belongs to, and return it to them. Maybe a reward. No...that's only an excuse to open it. No matter my situation, I must keep my morals. If I have morals, then why do I need to pick a lock?!
This train of thought left her crying on the ground once more. She shoved the box back to it's hiding place, and threw the lock against the wall. Then she sank down to the floor, and sobbed. Soon, she was asleep, but not at peace, for nightmares claimed her mind day and night.
Relena woke up hot. Why was it so hot? Oh, too many blankets. she thought, and threw one off. Wait, blankets? a voice in her mind cried out, and her aqua eyes snapped open. Instead of the dark alleyway that had become her home, she was in a heated room, on a small bed, with pillows, blankets, the works.
"What?" Relena sat up, startled. She looked around. She was in a large room, with cots like hers lining the walls. there was a large locker by each bed, and a table with a small lamp. A wide aisle in the center was formed by the ends of the beds. There was a double door at either end of the room, and one of them was propped open. It looked like it lead to a bathroom.
She heard a groan, and realized she wasn't alone. Looking closer at the cots, she saw some of them were occupied. The one next to her had a girl in a school uniform sprawled over it. The girl rolled over and fell off the cot.
"Oof!" the girl grunted, and yawned.
"Hello." Relena said, quietly.
"G'Morning." the girl said grumply. "Or afternoon, if you want to get down to it. God, I can't believe I slept 'till four-thirty. I didn't run that far this morning. Did I?" she asked.
"I don't know...where are we?" Relena asked.
"Oh, yeah, you're new. This is the Angel Orphanage. Jack found you out on the street, and brought you here. He runs this place, along with Jamie, his wife." The girl pulled herself up, and sat on her bed, facing Relena. "I'm Kay Angel." She help out a hand.
"Cerena Dorlian." Relena extended her own hand, and they shook.
"Don't worry, Cerena, this is a nice place, I've lived here for nine years." she reassured Relena. "Want some lunch? Err..dinner...or whatever. Want food?"
Relena smiled. She sounds like Duo. "Yeah, that'd be great." Kay began to brush and braid her hair. Relena let out her black locks, and Kay handed her an extra brush. "After I look human again." she amended.
"Showers are in there. There are extra uniforms there too, just find your size." she pointed at the open doors, and then went back to her own mess she called her hair.
As soon as Relena was alone in the shower, she got to thinking. That girl looks familiar, even though I've never seen her before. Her eyes, they're so blue and cold, but she is so nice. Who do her eyes remind me of?
Then an image came to her, Kay was sitting there talking, and on the bed behind her, there was a teddy bear with a red ribbon around it's neck. It looks like mine! Exactly! her mind yelled out. It's like the one Heero gave m-
Then she knew who else had those cold blue eyes.
"Heero." she said his name softly, and sank down to the floor and cried, as the water flowed over her.
"Chris!!" a voice yelled out. "Come on!! We're gonna be late. You're not gonna back out on me are ya?" she dared.
Heero poked his head out and yelled, "I'm coming, I just have to grab something." He ran into Relena's room. He silently gave a tribute the skills he never knew she possessed. She left him a note in a place where only he would find it. In it she asked him not to follow her, even though it turns out she was a lot harder to track than he thought. After a while, he decided to give up and let her live a new life. All he knew was she was alive and probably on L1.
Well, that was nice, because home was on L1, and he was headed home. maybe he would see her. But if I do, I won't tell her anyone, and I'll let her be happy where she is. he promised himself. Heero had to admit do himself that he loved her, now that she was gone. He took the bear off her bed. The bear he gave her.
He took the bear as a sign. She was leaving it behind, and Heero along with it. He sighed, and put the bear in his bag. As he left the room, he said "Goodbye, Relena." and left her behind. He left his heart behind with it.
They got in the car, and the five of them, Zechs, Une, Marie, Kitty, and himself, drove off to the spaceport. They were on their way to the place where Heero had lived for five years, Kitty for nine. The Colony L1 Angel Orphanage.
This is getting to be a lot of fun, writing this. I hope you enjoy reading it. Oh, and, btw, Heero, would you like to be my muse? Pleeease? No?! Awww....I'll ask Duo then...
-Ayanami_Chan
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